.htaccess Wildcard Redirect Passthrough (Web Hosting)

[Ryder Cragie]

I have hosting set up on a wildcard on my domain (*.example.com) and I would like to have the following type of redirect:

whatever-the-user-types-here.example.com > example.com/whatever-the-user-types-here

Does anyone know the code for this please? This would make my day if someone could help.

Thanks.

 

[KGIII]

Have you seen:

.htaccess rewrite subdomain to directory

Is it possible to use .htaccess to rewrite a sub domain to a directory? Example: http://sub.domain.com/ shows the content of http://domain.com/subdomains/sub/

stackoverflow.com

 

[Ryder Cragie]

I have, yes. I use LiteSpeed, not Apache. I am so bad with .htaccess that I can't even modify the code given there to see if it works.

 

[KGIII]

LOL I too suck with .htaccess. Maybe someone'll come help that knows more than we do.

 

[KGIII]

Wait... I was confused for a bit and decided to revisit this. Shouldn't the htaccess work just fine for LiteSpeed - as in there's no difference code needed. If memory serves, it was only in the enterprise version but I recalled it being added to the open version - and that looks like it was a few years ago, at least for mod_rewrite, which is what the snippet relies on.

 

[Ryder Cragie]

I think you have to make a load of backend changes to the server. I don't really know.

 

[KGIII]

I use LiteSpeed on a few accounts and .htaccess works as expected on all of them. However, on those servers I'm just a user/reseller. So, more than that I don't know other than the occasional blog posts I've encountered over the years.

 

[Ryder Cragie]

.htaccess does "work" (by definition), but it acts differently compared to Apache. The code sometimes needs to be formatted differently.

 

[Ryder Cragie]

Update: I've been through many pages of Google and I FINALLY found it! Here is the code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/%1 [L,R=302]

However, files are no longer accessible. So random.example.com does go to example.com/random, but the files that I am hosting are not visible. So random.example.com/test.txt does not work like it did before I added the .htaccess code. Not sure what I need to modify to get this working.